• A toast to roasted veggies
It was hot and thunderstorms were rolling through Acadiana. The heat and humidity had turned my brain to mush. Dinner guests were to arrive in less than six hours, and I was drawing a blank as to what to serve to accompany a beautiful, thick sirloin steak.

• Blue crab in red sauce
Sometimes, when someone tells me about a dish he has made, I just start begging for the recipe. Sometimes, I am lucky enough to receive it to share with you. That's the case today.

• Blue crab in red sauce
Sometimes, when someone tells me about a dish he has made, I just start begging for the recipe. Sometimes, I am lucky enough to receive it to share with you. That's the case today.

• Who Data
This shouldn't shock anybody: Hollis Thomas' father is a chef.

• FOOD BRIEFS
WINE-TASTING AT SoFAB: A presentation and wine tasting by Pontchartrain Vineyards will be held Saturday at 3 p.m. at the Southern Food and Beverage Museum, at the Riverwalk Marketplace's Julia St. entrance. The winery will sample their La Trolley, Roux Saint Louis, Zydeco Rosato, and Rouge Militaire wines. Cost is free with museum admission, but space is limited. To reserve a spot, e-mail Stephanie@southernfood.org.

• FOOD BRIEFS
WINE-TASTING AT SoFAB: A presentation and wine tasting by Pontchartrain Vineyards will be held Saturday at 3 p.m. at the Southern Food and Beverage Museum, at the Riverwalk Marketplace's Julia St. entrance. The winery will sample their La Trolley, Roux Saint Louis, Zydeco Rosato, and Rouge Militaire wines. Cost is free with museum admission, but space is limited. To reserve a spot, e-mail Stephanie@southernfood.org.

• Oysters Rockefeller deconstructed with bacon
Top local chefs demonstrate the recipes and cooking techniques that give New Orleans its sterling culinary reputation in "Cooking, New Orleans Style," a video feature on NOLA.com. See the video at www.nola.com/dining.

• Oysters Rockefeller deconstructed with bacon
Top local chefs demonstrate the recipes and cooking techniques that give New Orleans its sterling culinary reputation in "Cooking, New Orleans Style," a video feature on NOLA.com. See the video at www.nola.com/dining.

• THURSDAY'S CALENDAR
LITERARY EVENTS

• Marcel Bienvenu: A toast to roasted veggies
It was hot and thunderstorms were rolling through Acadiana. The heat and humidity had turned my brain to mush. Dinner guests were to arrive in less than six hours, and I was drawing a blank as to what to serve to accompany a beautiful, thick sirloin steak.

• Nell Nolan: Hailing the future; honoring the past
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• Shangri-La to forgo parade in February
Struggling with a membership decline, the Mystic Krewe of Shangri-La announced Wednesday that it will not parade in 2009.

• Angus Lind: Who Data
This shouldn't shock anybody: Hollis Thomas' father is a chef.

• Breakthrough novelist
New Orleanian Bill Loehfelm wrote most of his new novel at a small table near the window in the back of Rue de la Course because it was then the only coffee shop in his neighborhood that allowed smoking inside.

• True life
ART FROM HER HEART:

• More cowbell!
If you really wanna rock, you've gotta have a hook.

• Hot reads
--- BEACH BOOK ---

• Shelf Life
CHARLIE THENSTED,

• This week
SPOTLIGHT ON:

• Write stuff
Heather Graham's Writers for New Orleans Workshop

• Fall/winter benefits deadline is Friday
Attention, club publicity chairmen: The Living section's fall/winter calendar of benefits will be published Sunday, Sept. 7. Deadline for submissions is Friday. To be included, the event must be a fundraiser that is open to the public.

• WEDNESDAY'S CALENDAR
LITERARY EVENTS

• Dave Walker: Benson buys into production company
New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson promised that his May purchase of local Fox affiliate WVUE-Channel 8 was just the first of several film and video ventures for his new Louisiana Media Co.

• Hot reads
--- BEACH BOOK ---

• Shelf Life
CHARLIE THENSTED,

• This week
SPOTLIGHT ON:

• True life
ART FROM HER HEART:

• Out of the frying pan
John and Georgia Bickel were blissfully asleep when their son, who lives with them, came running into their bedroom. "Major flooding!" he screamed. "Get up!"

• Supermodel Sr.
"Me, a model?" seemed to be the initial reaction of many who walked by a tent at Riverwalk Marketplace this weekend, where AARP The Magazine hosted a modeling search for men and women over 50 years old.

• Live, from the French Quarter
News-talk radio station WIST AM-690 has long operated out of a suburban setting, and a move back to the French Quarter by owner George Buck's GHB Broadcasting wasn't the cheapest option available.

• N.O. Film Fest update
New Orleans Film Festival organizers are elbow-deep in planning for the Oct. 10-16 event, and though the 2008 lineup has not been announced, this much is certain: Things are going to be a little different this time.

• Benefits calendar deadline is Friday
Attention, club publicity chairmen: The Living section's fall/winter calendar of benefits will be published Sunday, Sept. 7. Deadline for submissions is Aug. 22. To be included, the event must be a fund raiser that is open to the public.

• TUESDAY'S CALENDAR
LITERARY EVENTS

• Nell Nolan: Good Citizens and loyal Rotarians
Sunset, Sunrise! So went the socializing.

• Dave Walker: Live, from the French Quarter
News-talk radio station WIST AM-690 has long operated out of a suburban setting, and a move back to the French Quarter by owner George Buck's GHB Broadcasting wasn't the cheapest option available.

• Chris Rose: Out of the frying pan
John and Georgia Bickel were blissfully asleep when their son, who lives with them, came running into their bedroom. "Major flooding!" he screamed. "Get up!"

• Now hear us
A kid in a nearby park bangs the same rhythm on a metal pole almost every evening. The sound gets stuck in Heather Booth's head.

• Now hear us
A kid in a nearby park bangs the same rhythm on a metal pole almost every evening. The sound gets stuck in Heather Booth's head.

• Keeping his perspective
When's the last time you met somebody from Chalmette who warned you not to confuse him with the king of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf?

• Keeping his perspective
When's the last time you met somebody from Chalmette who warned you not to confuse him with the king of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf?

• PARENTS & CHILDREN CALENDAR
STUFF FOR KIDS

• MONDAY'S CALENDAR
COMMUNITY EVENTS

• Nell Nolan: Clubs combine business, pleasure
A scholarly salute!

• Angus Lind: Keeping his perspective
When's the last time you met somebody from Chalmette who warned you not to confuse him with the king of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf?

• Angus Lind: Keeping his perspective
When's the last time you met somebody from Chalmette who warned you not to confuse him with the king of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf?

• PARENTS & CHILDREN CALENDAR
STUFF FOR KIDS

• 'City of Refuge' is built to last
Tom Piazza's "City of Refuge" -- a tale of two families, two cities, really -- is the big Katrina novel here at last, reconstructing a city's stubborn spirit through a writer's keen vision into singular human hearts. It remembers the life before, honors the lives lost, and adds its urgency to the struggle that continues.

• Class act: BELIZE
ECO-TOURISM VERSUS SHOPPING AND SIGHTSEEING

• Paper Trails
Pack a Travel cover on your next trip and e-mail a photo -- be imaginative -- of you and the Travel section to Papertrails@timespicayune.com (put destination in the subject line) or snail-mail a print to Paper Trails, Travel, The Times-Picayune, 3800 Howard Ave., New Orleans, LA 70125-1429.

• Trip Tips
--- The prices ---

• Why Tom Piazza matters
It was one of those Jazzfest moments of perfect grace. The Carolina Chocolate Drops launched into the Blind Willie Johnson song "City of Refuge," and there, on an aisle seat, clapping along and rocking out, was music writer Tom Piazza.

• A friend to the end
Bernie Mac's legacy will be laughter, but his New Orleans fans have reason to love him, as well as mourn his loss, beyond career highlights.

• You and improved
There was a time when snapshots were something to stuff in an album and place on a shelf, to be pulled out occasionally when dear friends wanted to chuckle over your Farrah Fawcett hair and your micro-miniskirt from back in the day.

• Class act: BELIZE
ECO-TOURISM VERSUS SHOPPING AND SIGHTSEEING

• Don't worry about boomers, cher
If you're among the first wave of baby boomers thinking of retiring soon, here are a few phrases you might start practicing:

• Killing foot odor no small feat
Stinky feet. The embarrassing odor can drive even your best friend running out the door. It's in the heat of the summer, when we wear sandals and flip-flops, that the funk becomes more apparent.

• Most don't take osteoporosis seriously enough, survey says
Sometimes it seems that our attention to diseases waxes and wanes depending on which celebrity has a family member affected or who is hawking which drug company's treatment on television.

• New procedures reduce pain of varicose vein treatment
BIRMINGHAM, ALA. -- Gerri Cooper-Cox is wearing shorts this summer for the first time in 10 years. That's how long it's been since she developed varicose veins in her right calf that made her self-conscious about baring her legs.

• Nurse's aide returns to Uganda as king
HARRISBURG, PA. -- It's the kind of story that usually begins "once upon a time."

• Paper Trails
Pack a Travel cover on your next trip and e-mail a photo -- be imaginative -- of you and the Travel section to Papertrails@timespicayune.com (put destination in the subject line) or snail-mail a print to Paper Trails, Travel, The Times-Picayune, 3800 Howard Ave., New Orleans, LA 70125-1429.

• SUNDAY'S CALENDAR
SPECIAL EVENTS

• Trip Tips
--- The prices ---

• TV disposal woes threaten the environment
Americans are sprinting in record numbers for the latest generation of flat-screen televisions, lured by lush picture quality, the high-def Summer Olympics and a switch to all-digital TV early next year.

• Dave Walker: A friend to the end
Bernie Mac's legacy will be laughter, but his New Orleans fans have reason to love him, as well as mourn his loss, beyond career highlights.

• BUILDING AN AUDIENCE
To hear filmmaker Michael Selditch discuss 'Architecture School,' visit Dave Walker's blog, at blog.nola.com/davewalker/

• Coming Home
Five members of Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre's season-opening musical "Rent" are New Orleanians who have relocated to New York and are coming home to appear in the first U.S. community theater production of the fabled Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning rock musical, which has been running for 12 years on Broadway.

• Special delivery to the birthplace of jazz
Early Wednesday morning, a truck laden with 3,300 pounds of music pulled up to a Mid-City storage facility.

• That old-time TV
A treasure of tele-memories for born-and-raised locals, "New Orleans Television" is packaged as a picture book, but its captions and chapter introductions neatly distill the city's TV history.

• Film flurry
Though the Louisiana movie biz has been simmering in earnest since 2002 or so, contributing greatly to the region's population of guys wearing cargo shorts with a roll of duct tape dangling from the belt, the results seem to be remarkably spaced out on the movie-release calendar.

• 'It will not happen again'
For the first time since his June arrest for driving while intoxicated and reckless driving, Norman Robinson returned to WDSU-Channel 6's anchor chair Friday night.

• Better Black Television is Percy Miller's goal
New Orleans-born hip-hop star and entrepreneur Percy Miller -- once known as Master P, now P. Miller -- will launch a new, Los Angeles-based television network in 2009.

• Benefits deadline is Aug. 22
Attention, club publicity chairmen: The Living section's fall/winter calendar of benefits will be published Sunday, Sept. 7. Deadline for submissions is Aug. 22. To be included, the event must be a fund raiser that is open to the public.

• SATURDAY'S CALENDAR
SPECIAL EVENTS

• SATURDAY'S CALENDAR
SPECIAL EVENTS

• AFRICAN HERITAGE INSPIRES STYLE OF QUILTMAKER
THE ARTIST: Cely Tapplette-Pedescleaux

• Dave Walker: Better Black Television is Percy Miller's goal
New Orleans-born hip-hop star and entrepreneur Percy Miller -- once known as Master P, now P. Miller -- will launch a new, Los Angeles-based television network in 2009.

• Letters to Dan Gill: Dan Gill's mailbox
Is it better to wait until cool weather to plant azaleas and crape myrtles? If so, what month is best? Also, what about St. Augustine grass -- is there a preferred time to put down sod? Thanks.

• DORM DO-OVER
So, my mother is the editor of the home and garden section of The Times-Picayune. Ergo, you'd think that I would know a bit about home décor.

• EAST JEFFERSON REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
E. JEFFERSON

• Dan Gill: GINGERS CAN BE A SNAP
Although we are past the midpoint of our hot summer season, there is still time to add tropical plants to the landscape. They thrive in the heat, and prefer to be planted during the summer.

• Home and garden happenings
THIS WEEK

• Dave Walker: 'It will not happen again'
For the first time since his June arrest for driving while intoxicated and reckless driving, Norman Robinson returned to WDSU-Channel 6's anchor chair Friday night.

• KATRINA MURAL IS PART DECOR, PART THERAPY
BLANK CANVAS: It was an artistic challenge, plus it eliminated a too-plain expanse of cinderblock. Mostly, though, it was a form of therapy, Lekha Subaiya says of the mural she painted on the 14-by-8-foot exterior wall of her backyard cabana.

• MODEST LOOKS CAN BE MISLEADING IN LAKEVIEW
THE NEIGHBORHOOD: Lakeview, one of the neighborhoods hit hardest by the floodwater of Hurricane Katrina, is still in the process of rebuilding. The area is bounded roughly by Robert E. Lee Boulevard on the north, I-610 on the south, Orleans Avenue on the east and West End Boulevard on the west. In the city's early years, the land was owned by an order of Capuchin priests, then sold to Don Almonester y Roxas, a wealthy Spaniard who paid to rebuild St. Louis Cathedral and fathered the woman who built the Pontalba Apartments at Jackson Square. Later, Alexander Milne owned the land, which was uninhabitable because of its swampy nature. It wasn't until the early 1900s, when drainage of the area began, that streets were constructed, lots subdivided and the New Orleans Land Co. began offering property for sale. Most of Lakeview's original homes were built between 1910 and World War II and reflect the styles popular at the time, from Craftsman bungalows to cottages with a Mediterranean feel. Residents were drawn by the large lots, modern amenities (such as parking and service alleys accessing the rear of lots) and proximity to Lake Pontchartrain. Today, older homes are being renovated and new homes in a variety of sizes and styles are rising where others were lost to floodwater.

• MOM READY TO TAKE STYLISTIC BACKSEAT
Katherine thinks I'm trying to get out of writing a column, huh?

• NEW ORLEANS REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
NEW ORLEANS

• STAY ON TOP OF TERMITES
Termites are tough creatures. Basic controls and stand-alone treatments are not foolproof, so it's wise to invest in a second line of defense. If building, consider a total termite-resistant structure: no untreated wood, foam or paper anywhere. Formosan termites can cause major structural damage within a year of infestation, so if they have been found in your area, it's particularly necessary to include additional protection. Here's how:

• ST. BERNARD REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
ST. BERNARD

• ST. JOHN REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
ST. JOHN

• ST. TAMMANY REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
ST. TAMMANY

• TAKING THE HOMETOWN WITH YOU
College students who are heading to out-of-town campuses this month are packing more than personal items. Many are taking along little pieces of NOLA as well.

• Dave Walker: That old-time TV
A treasure of tele-memories for born-and-raised locals, "New Orleans Television" is packaged as a picture book, but its captions and chapter introductions neatly distill the city's TV history.

• Dan Gill: Tips for gardeners
ROOTS UNBOUND: After a summer of vigorous growth outside, some containerized plants may be pot bound. Check yours and repot into larger containers if necessary. Also, plants in pots sitting on a brick surface, gravel or soil may grow roots out of the drainage holes into the ground. Prevent this by lifting the pots occasionally, or boosting them up on pieces of stone or brick.

• Nell Nolan: Tradition is served at two deb parties
When debutante Lindsey Le Walton Becker was asked who chose the site for her party, she smiled and said, "My mother." Appropriately, the venue was Mother's Next Door. Her Sunday brunch was followed days later by another restaurant round of socializing. This time the Sunday to-do, an evening one, was for Caroline Dent Sinders. It unfolded in the Vieux Carre at Muriel's Jackson Square with the invitation announcing: "Look into your future while partying in the past." Both parties were given by the debutantes' respective parents, Laurie and Walter Becker, and Lisa Sinders and John Sinders.

• Long Road Home: VISION OF NEW HOUSE FINALLY TAKING SHAPE
NOTE: A month ago, framing was almost complete at the home that Karina Gentinetta and her husband, A.J. McAlear, are building in Lakeview to replace the one they lost to Hurricane Katrina. Since then, progress has continued, despite a hiccup that could have shut down the project for six weeks.

• WEST JEFFERSON REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
W. JEFFERSON

• Head over heels
I am a yoga dilettante content to sample this city's buffet of yoga entrees, which is how I ended up agreeing to take part in the latest offering: aerial yoga.

• THE BEST REVENGE
JO PETR

• THE RIGHT TONE: A weekly guide to being fit
If you're bored with the same old lunges and squats, try a balancing exercise to challenge your mind and body. A blend of modern dance and yoga, the following balance series strengthens and tones your entire lower body -- hips, buttocks, thighs and calves. It also will tone your abdominals and lower back and improve your posture and balance.

• Where everybody knows your name
David Patten hauled in the first touchdown pass of the Saints pre-season and someone in Henry's Bar shouted: "Super Bowl!"

• Benefits calendar deadline is Aug. 22
Attention, club publicity chairmen: The Living section's fall/winter calendar of benefits will be published Sunday, Sept. 7. Deadline for submissions is Aug. 22. To be included, the event must be a fund raiser that is open to the public.

• Short-term weight loss aids diabetics
PORTLAND, ORE. -- Short-term dieting success can help people control diabetes for years -- even if they regain all the lost weight, a new study suggests.

• Chris Rose: The 60-Second Interview
A 37-year-old service industry journeyman, Matt Dwyer has embarked on an improbable dream: to reopen and reinvigorate a unique and venerable Uptown institution.

• THE BEST REVENGE
JO PETR

• THE RIGHT TONE: A weekly guide to being fit
If you're bored with the same old lunges and squats, try a balancing exercise to challenge your mind and body. A blend of modern dance and yoga, the following balance series strengthens and tones your entire lower body -- hips, buttocks, thighs and calves. It also will tone your abdominals and lower back and improve your posture and balance.

• Angus Lind: Where everybody knows your name
David Patten hauled in the first touchdown pass of the Saints pre-season and someone in Henry's Bar shouted: "Super Bowl!"

• Give 'em a hand!
August is National Sandwich Month, the perfect time to celebrate an unsung star of the New Orleans party table. In a city noted for the invention of the po-boy and the muffuletta, another local favorite is astonishingly abundant: the finger sandwich.

• Give 'em a hand!
August is National Sandwich Month, the perfect time to celebrate an unsung star of the New Orleans party table. In a city noted for the invention of the po-boy and the muffuletta, another local favorite is astonishingly abundant: the finger sandwich.

• Another recipe to relish
"I hope you aren't finished with relish recipes," writes M.M.B. from Luling. "I'm sending you the recipe I got from my Aunt Bettye Sue. She called it Dixie Relish.

• Another recipe to relish
"I hope you aren't finished with relish recipes," writes M.M.B. from Luling. "I'm sending you the recipe I got from my Aunt Bettye Sue. She called it Dixie Relish.

• Paradise on Bayou Teche
My husband and I and two other couples had a grand stay-cation (one of those stay-at-home vacations) last week. We "borrowed" a cousin's party house, which is about a half mile away from our house on Bayou Teche.

• The Quarter is back!
Sitting on a hotel room balcony overlooking Royal Street, I watched the French Quarter wake up, a Kodak moment framed by ornate wrought iron, an ever-changing postcard in progress.

• FOOD BRIEFS
NEW ROBERT FRESH MARKET OPENS: The latest Robert Fresh Market store, at Carrollton and Claiborne avenues, opened for business on Tuesday. A grand opening will be held later.

• FOOD BRIEFS
NEW ROBERT FRESH MARKET OPENS: The latest Robert Fresh Market store, at Carrollton and Claiborne avenues, opened for business on Tuesday. A grand opening will be held later.

• Benefits deadline is Aug. 22
Attention, club publicity chairmen: The Living section's fall/winter calendar of benefits will be published Sunday, Sept. 7. Deadline for submissions is Aug. 22. To be included, the event must be a fund raiser that is open to the public.

• THURSDAY'S CALENDAR
COMEDY

• Nell Nolan: Deb soiree takes guests on 'Safari'
See ya later, alligator!

• Marcel Bienvenu: Paradise on Bayou Teche
My husband and I and two other couples had a grand stay-cation (one of those stay-at-home vacations) last week. We "borrowed" a cousin's party house, which is about a half mile away from our house on Bayou Teche.

• Angus Lind: The Quarter is back!
Sitting on a hotel room balcony overlooking Royal Street, I watched the French Quarter wake up, a Kodak moment framed by ornate wrought iron, an ever-changing postcard in progress.

• Phyllisophical
"I truly believe that home is where the heart is and when you say 'New Orleans,' you might as well say 'my heart,' " said Phyllis Montana LeBlanc, leaning forward with characteristic intensity. "This city is for people who really love it, really want to see it come back.

• Sentimental Symmetry
Some folks love New Orleans so much that they make decisions that might leave others scratching their heads. It is what it is, as the saying goes.

• Debut novel celebrates the promise of big ideas
THE LITTLE BOOK

• Hot reads
--- Beach Book ---

• Shelf Life
NELL SAUSSY

• This week
SPOTLIGHT ON:

• 'Tropic Thunder' a perfect storm of comedy, action
Jack Black is a childish, out-of-control comic. Robert Downey Jr. is an actor with a madness to his Method. Ben Stiller is a pampered hack with an undeserved ego. Nick Nolte is sweaty, nasty and about four eggs short of a dozen. And Tom Cruise? Tom Cruise is insane.

• WEDNESDAY'S CALENDAR
LITERARY EVENTS

• Debut novel celebrates the promise of big ideas
THE LITTLE BOOK

• Hot reads
--- Beach Book ---

• Phyllisophical
"I truly believe that home is where the heart is and when you say 'New Orleans,' you might as well say 'my heart,' " said Phyllis Montana LeBlanc, leaning forward with characteristic intensity. "This city is for people who really love it, really want to see it come back.

• Chris Rose: Sentimental Symmetry
Some folks love New Orleans so much that they make decisions that might leave others scratching their heads. It is what it is, as the saying goes.

• Shelf Life
NELL SAUSSY

• This week
SPOTLIGHT ON:

• Kid Rock rolls on
Anyone who doubts music's ability to supersede all barriers and boundaries would do well to consider the scene at a nearly full New Orleans Arena on Friday night.

• Message in the music
Indians in pink and orange feathers, a children's theater group in matching yellow T-shirts and an assortment of extras marched and danced around Woldenberg Riverfront Park on Saturday, surrounded by camera crews and a handful of curious tourists.

• This Ron wasn't that Ron
Time to let an appealing, but inaccurate, tale rest in peace:

• Benefits calendar deadline is Aug. 22
Attention, club publicity chairmen: The Living section's fall/winter calendar of benefits will be published Sunday, Sept. 7. Deadline for submissions is Aug. 22. To be included, the event must be a fund-raiser that is open to the public.

• TUESDAY'S CALENDAR
COMMUNITY EVENTS

• Nell Nolan: 'Gardens' party has artistic accent
A party palette!

• Dave Walker: This Ron wasn't that Ron
Time to let an appealing, but inaccurate, tale rest in peace:

• Hansen's Sno-Blog
Even syrup and ice have gone high tech, as Hansen's Sno-Bliz enters the digital age.

• Hansen's Sno-Blog
Even syrup and ice have gone high tech, as Hansen's Sno-Bliz enters the digital age.

• PARENTS & CHILDREN CALENDAR
STUFF FOR KIDS

• Benefits calendar deadline is Aug. 22
Attention, club publicity chairmen: The Living section's fall/winter calendar of benefits will be published Sunday, Sept. 7. Deadline for submissions is Aug. 22. To be included, the event must be a fund-raiser that is open to the public.

• MONDAY'S CALENDAR
COMMUNITY EVENTS

• PARENTS & CHILDREN CALENDAR
STUFF FOR KIDS

• Nell Nolan: River and islands on the deb party map
Bright nights and deb delights!

• The fascinating rhythms of Fez
FEZ, MOROCCO -- Saida means "happy" in Arabic. When Saida Ezzahoui was a girl, she said her mother told her she was ugly, but it must have been one of those things mothers say in an attempt to prevent their daughters from being vain.

• The Oscar Minor winners
Pity the early-year movie release.

• Trip Tips
--- Airline updates ---

• Where will we find you next?
Pack a Travel cover on your next trip and e-mail a photo -- be imaginative -- of you and the Travel section to Papertrails@timespicayune.com (put destination in the subject line) or snail mail a print to Paper Trails, Travel, The Times-Picayune, 3800 Howard Ave., New Orleans, LA 70125-1429.

• Legal briefs, indeed
Watergate had Deep Throat. Monica Lewinsky had a stained blue dress. William Jefferson had frozen cash.

• 'Bustout Burlesque' gets Bourbon run
"Bustout Burlesque," the retro revue of what a Bourbon Street nightclub show was like in the 1950s, finally will play Bourbon Street next month -- at a prime location and with a corporate sponsor.

• Did Mickey take her SUV for a spin?
The problem: I recently stayed at the Grand Floridian Resort & Spa at Walt Disney World, and something happened to my SUV that I parked through the hotel's valet service.

• Repeat 'super users' swamp emergency rooms
CAMDEN, N.J. -- Bean-thin and sallow, George tugged on a cigarette in the blistering parking lot of a men's shelter. Standing on the pavement, his foot on a picnic bench, he recalled how he took his first drink at 13.

• Ringing in ears resides in brain, new findings suggest
When it's quiet, Elliott Berger's ears sense a cacophony: ringing, hissing and a rough, cricketlike blaring.

• SUNDAY'S CALENDAR
BENEFITS

• The fascinating rhythms of Fez
FEZ, MOROCCO -- Saida means "happy" in Arabic. When Saida Ezzahoui was a girl, she said her mother told her she was ugly, but it must have been one of those things mothers say in an attempt to prevent their daughters from being vain.

• Trip Tips
--- Airline updates ---

• Where will we find you next?
Pack a Travel cover on your next trip and e-mail a photo -- be imaginative -- of you and the Travel section to Papertrails@timespicayune.com (put destination in the subject line) or snail mail a print to Paper Trails, Travel, The Times-Picayune, 3800 Howard Ave., New Orleans, LA 70125-1429.

• Chris Rose: Legal briefs, indeed
Watergate had Deep Throat. Monica Lewinsky had a stained blue dress. William Jefferson had frozen cash.

• MOD POD
As an architect and director of Tulane University School of Architecture's design-build program, Byron Mouton is accustomed to working according to clients' and students' needs.

• Rated CP3
Chris Paul, he knows spotlights.

• 'We Shall Not Be Moved'
Production crews and local musicians will assemble at Woldenberg Riverfront Park today to shoot a music video that promises to show the world "a unified, joyful future for our city."

• Fall/winter benefits calendar deadline Aug. 22
Attention, club publicity chairmen: The Living section's fall/winter calendar of benefits will be published Sunday, Sept. 7. Deadline for submissions is Aug. 22. To be included, the event must be a fundraiser that is open to the public.

• Pal power
Sometimes, with all the pointless competition, feuding and lack of cooperation, the "New Orleans theater community" doesn't seem to exist.

• SATURDAY'S CALENDAR
SPECIAL EVENTS

• Letters to Dan Gill: Dan Gill's mailbox
Is it OK to fertilize with a liquid fertilizer when it is this hot? I water very early in the morning, and that is when I usually fertilize (every 10-14 days). Would it be better to fertilize in the evening, when it is a little cooler?

• Nell Nolan: Deb party paces take historical turn
Remembrances of venues past made party presence a reality for two debutantes. "Backyard Barbecue Rhythm and Blues" bannered the raffia-accented, red-and-white checked invitation extended by Mr. and Mrs. Donald Scott Crabtree, Scott and Tammy, in honor of their daughter, Kaitlin Elizabeth Crabtree. According to Tammy, the inspiration for the party was found in the fond memories of summers spent at Kaitlin's great-grandmother's farm in Tennessee. Their guests gathered from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Crabtree family home.

• EAST JEFFERSON REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
E. JEFFERSON

• ENERGY ALLIANCE'S TIME TO SHINE
Fuel prices hit an all-time high this summer, but the folks at the nonprofit Alliance for Affordable Energy have been sweating energy efficiency for more than 20 years.

• FILLING IN THE MISSING PIECES
MISSING PIECES I: Chuck Bruno of River Ridge said he felt terrible when several pieces of his grandmother's 16-place setting of vintage Noritake china were shattered while he was packing to move to a new home. "I used (the china) all the time, and I was devastated," he said. "I tried to look in a few stores and some antique shops, but the pattern was discontinued." An online search turned up North Carolina-based Replacements Ltd, which specializes in replacing missing pieces of china, silver and other collectibles. He contacted the company to inquire about replacing a gravy boat, two small butter dishes and a serving platter. After being told the requested pieces were in stock, he decided to visit the company's warehouse, since he planned to be in the Greensboro area the following month. "The experience I had there was one of kind," said Bruno. He discovered that craftsmen could fabricate new pieces from old patterns, and opted to have a cheese server made for his set. "They used a salad plate, drilled a hole in it, put a foot on it and added a dome." Although he admits that he would have paid whatever price necessary to replace his sentimental treasures, he says the cost was moderate.

• Dan Gill: GET A FRESH START ON HOME VEGETABLES
We are entering an active time of the year in the vegetable garden, when we begin to focus on late summer and fall vegetables.

• Home and garden happenings
THIS WEEK

• NEW ORLEANS REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
NEW ORLEANS

• NIGHT OUT ON A STREET THAT BLOSSOMS WITH POSSIBILITY
THE NEIGHBORHOOD: Edgewood Park, part of Gentilly and recognized post-Katrina as eligible for addition to the National Register of Historic Places. Though the area has not yet been designated as such (studies, surveys and public hearings must be held), it features many house types and styles similar to those in Gentilly Terrace, the historic district just across Gentilly Boulevard. It is distinguished by a collection of Craftsman bungalows and raised basement houses with a scattering of other styles popular in the 1920s and 1930s. The streets bounding Edgewood Park form a rough triangle: Gentilly Boulevard on the north, Peoples Avenue on the east, and Clematis Street on the west. However, the area considered eligible for the register extends all the way to Fairmont Street on the west, rather than ending at Clematis. Franklin Avenue serves as the north-south "spine" of the area. Part of the neighborhood's charm derives from the fact that its streets are named for flowers and trees. Near Edgewood Park are Dillard University and the Gentilly Woods Shopping Center, now under renovation. Neighbors belong to the Edgewood Park Neighborhood Association, the group that organized a recent Night Out Against Crime.

• Long Road Home: RENOVATION PROGRESS FINALLY BRINGS A SMILE
NOTE: Greta Gladney spent much of the past two months traveling on business, but an electrician and a framing carpenter were at work at her Lower 9th Ward house. This week, Gladney recruited a trusted adviser to assess the progress.

• ST. BERNARD REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
ST. BERNARD

• ST. CHARLES REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
ST. CHARLES

• ST. JOHN REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
ST. JOHN

• ST. TAMMANY REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
ST. TAMMANY

• ST. TAMMANY REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
ST. TAMMANY

• STUDIO'S ABSTRACTS REFLECT ARTISTIC HEALING
THE HOME: A two-story Victorian on Magazine Street

• This Mold House: THREE YEARS LATER, STILL MUSING ABOUT MODULAR
Sometimes, driving along bumpy Lakeview streets on my way home, I play a game. I'll spot a trim new house, with perfectly pitched roof, earth-toned wood siding, shutter-edged windows and shaded front porch bounded by white-picket rails, and try to decide: Stick-built or modular?

• Dan Gill: Tips for gardeners
TRIM-A-TREE: August and September tend to be the most active months for hurricanes. Well before a hurricane threatens, check shade trees near your home to make sure they are in good shape. In particular, look for and remove any large dead branches. Branches that hang close to or touch the roof of your house may need to be pruned or removed as well.

• TRIM CONSTRUCTION COSTS BY CUTTING BACK LEFTOVERS
You pay for construction waste three times: when you buy the material, when you have workers handle it and when you finally dispose of it. Reducing waste saves money and time. Here are some ways to cut down on what's left over after you build.

• WEST JEFFERSON REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
W. JEFFERSON

• Finding your inner dancer
"I think of it as moving yoga," says Christian Trosclair, a computer specialist and one of 14 people gathered for a "dancemeditation" class.

• The 60-Second Interview: REV RUN (with a cameo appearance by Justine Simmons)
As DJ Run -- and now an ordained minister -- Joseph Simmons was an integral member of the pioneer rap act Run-DMC. Following a prodigious music career, Run entered the reality TV arena a few seasons ago with "Run's House," one of MTV's most popular programs.

• THE BEST REVENGE
SUE TART

• THE RIGHT TONE: A weekly guide to being fit
Despite the August heat, are you still wearing long sleeves to cover up flabby arms? Here are all the exercises you need for strong, shapely, bare summer arms. The Biceps Curl sculpts the fronts of your upper arms, the Triceps Kickback tightens the backs of your upper arms, and the Lateral Raise will give you firm, shapely shoulders.

• Closer than you think
So I heard the guy at the end of the bar ask the guy next to him, if everybody everywhere is connected by six degrees of separation, what do you think the degrees of separation are in Noo Awlins?

• 'We Shall Not Be Moved'
Production crews and local musicians will assemble at Woldenberg Riverfront Park on Saturday to shoot a music video designed to show the world "a unified, joyful future for our city."

• Benefits calendar deadline is Aug. 22
Attention, club publicity chairmen: The Living section's fall/winter calendar of benefits will be published Sunday, Sept. 7. Deadline for submissions is Aug. 22. To be included, the event must be a fund-raiser that is open to the public.

• Experts get summer pests to bug off
During the dog days of summer, if there's one thing people gripe about more than the heat, it's the bugs. Planning an outdoor barbecue? The ants will be thrilled. Just want to relax on the porch with a cold glass of chardonnay? Mosquitoes are sure to appreciate the company.

• Angus Lind: Closer than you think
So I heard the guy at the end of the bar ask the guy next to him, if everybody everywhere is connected by six degrees of separation, what do you think the degrees of separation are in Noo Awlins?

• Finding your inner dancer
"I think of it as moving yoga," says Christian Trosclair, a computer specialist and one of 14 people gathered for a "dancemeditation" class.

• Chris Rose: The 60-Second Interview: REV RUN (with a cameo appearance by Justine Simmons)
As DJ Run -- and now an ordained minister -- Joseph Simmons was an integral member of the pioneer rap act Run-DMC. Following a prodigious music career, Run entered the reality TV arena a few seasons ago with "Run's House," one of MTV's most popular programs.

• THE BEST REVENGE
SUE TART

• THE RIGHT TONE: A weekly guide to being fit
Despite the August heat, are you still wearing long sleeves to cover up flabby arms? Here are all the exercises you need for strong, shapely, bare summer arms. The Biceps Curl sculpts the fronts of your upper arms, the Triceps Kickback tightens the backs of your upper arms, and the Lateral Raise will give you firm, shapely shoulders.